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WCDT strips 4046-4050 (15 - 19 July 2019)
andrybak:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 16 Jul 2019, 13:06 ---Years ago, Jeph said that he knows the reason for Hannelore's mental health problems and that it is a plot point. I cannot remember where or when he said that.
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That would be QA Dump #31. Googleable by query «Hannelore plot point site:http://jephjacques.com».
--- Quote from: BenRG on 16 Jul 2019, 23:25 ---What she's done is found a useful mind-exercise to help her basically not freak out all the time when dealing with the unhygienic.
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Personally, I expected any epiphanies to be for her anxieties in general, not just hygiene-related ones. Maybe the enlightenment would be explored more in the following comics.
jmsr:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 16 Jul 2019, 23:25 ---... I do think that people in developing world countries can rightly be a bit annoyed about these people from the First World with no problems coming to them, dripping with disposable wealth and wanting to 'experience' different cultures without any real personal stake other than curiosity and some condescending attitude about 'noble and exotic primitive ways'.
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This is pretty much why i don't take overseas vacations. I can't enjoy them because i feel like i'm imposing on or annoying or creeping out the locals and i spend the entire time feeling fucked up and weird about it (heck, i even felt that way while touring London, and i'm Canadian!). I may be projecting, but it's how i feel - and no amount of "but they want you to come and spend money!" can change that. Especially when you consider that even in 'touristy' areas, only a small fraction of the locals are profiting off the tourist trade.
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Someone also mentioned about having a knife on hand at all times. I feel the same way because you never know when something needs to be cut or sliced or scraped off. Heck, i use mine at work practically every day. However, i would point out that the small blade in a swiss army knife or pliers multitool is more than enough for these purposes - there's no need to go all "Crocodile Dundee" with a "propa knoife" like Dora is kind of going here.
Razgriz:
Dusting off my almost decade-old account to say that I'm disappointed by the implication of this newest comic. There were a lot of angry and/or snarky comments I wanted to make but I thought better of them, I'll just say this. Having someone simply decide to get over something like OCD implies that anyone who doesn't get over their own mental illness either isn't trying hard enough or doesn't want to (a sentiment I feel would've been moderated if it was expressed about Hanners in the past, and rightly so). Mental illness isn't so simple that it can be solved with such a basic epiphany as portrayed here. It can't be switched off after some soul searching. This is equivalent to telling a person with depression they should decide to be happy. I honestly expected better from QC.
Akima:
--- Quote from: jmsr on 16 Jul 2019, 23:40 ---Someone also mentioned about having a knife on hand at all times. I feel the same way because you never know when something needs to be cut or sliced or scraped off. Heck, i use mine at work practically every day. However, i would point out that the small blade in a swiss army knife or pliers multitool is more than enough for these purposes - there's no need to go all "Crocodile Dundee" with a "propa knoife" like Dora is kind of going here.
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At least Mick Dundee's knoife was a "tool knife", albeit a big one. Dora's is, I assume, an athame put to self-defence purposes?
QuestionableIntentions:
That's an easy one.
The point of being grossed out is to avoid things evolution has found out to be risky/harmful to us.
Next question.
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